Senate

The Nigerian Senate has Today, sworn in Air Marshal Isaac Alfa (rtd), Senator representing Kogi East district. Recall that the supreme court, January 23, upheld the order given by a High Court in Abuja on June 13, 2018, demanding the…

Nigerian Senate has scheduled consideration of 2019 - 2021 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP) Wednesday, March 13. Read also: Deji Adeyanju alleges Charly Boy ‘compromised with oppressors’ The…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to present the certificate of return to newly elected Senators and Honourables on Thursdays 14 March 2019. The Commission released the official list of the new representatives on…

The Nigerian Senate is set to begin debate on the 2019 budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 19, 2018. The Senate is resuming plenary today after the short break taken during the election period. Read also: …

Bukola Saraki, President of Nigeria Senate, has emphasized the senate’s commitment to fact-tracking the passage of the Nigerian Police Reform Bill. His Special Assistant on New Media, Olu Onemola, made it know in a press statement. He…

The Chief Okio Obono-Obla led Presidential Panel on Thursday, November 8, 2018, asked a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to issue a bench warrant against the deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu. The senator was charged with…

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential hopeful, Senator David Mark has assured of a special status for Nasarawa State if elected President of the Federal Republic in 2019. Such a status, Senator Mark listed to include special…

Press Statement PDP To APC, Presidency: You Can’t Remove Saraki, Ekweremadu The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop deluding themselves and come to terms with…

Why Nigerians are denied of quality healthcare -Sen. Ohuabunwa Chairman, Senate Committee on Primary Health Care and Communicable Diseases, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, has identified over-dependency on foreign donor to finance Nigerian …

Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has honoured the invitation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. He arrived the commission about 10am today Tuesday July 31, sources within the anti-graft agency told our…

Names of APC Senators who decamped to PDP About 15 All Progressives Congress senators have decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the ruling party internal crisis bites harder. The names of the senators are: Sen…

Embattled Kogi West senator, Dino Melaye, attended the Senate plenary on Wednesday after some weeks absence. Mr Melaye has been bed-ridden since he landed in the hospital after a failed attempt to evade being taken to Kogi State by the…

President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has said that the passage and assent to the #NotTooYoungToRun Bill, will be the first phase in the journey for more youth inclusion in politics. The President of the Senate, according…

The National Assembly yesterday responded to the allegation of corruption levelled against it by the former chairman of the Independence National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega. Jega, while delivering a Democracy…

The Nigerian Senate is currently locked in a closed door session with some heads of security agencies over proliferation of fire arms and rising criminal activities across the country. The security heads, who were ushered into the Senate…

 Dino Melaye: FCT High Court demands explanation for absence in court Justice Olasumbo Goodluck of FCT High Court, Maitama, on Wednesday adjourned until May 17 for Dino Melaye’s lawyer to explain why his client was not in…

Senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege on Wednesday appeared before the Senate in plenary. Omo-Agege was seen signing the attendance register within the upper chamber. The Senate on April 12,…

Kogi State High Court grants Senator Dino Melaye bail

The Senate on April 2, suspended Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege (Delta-APC) over a “dissenting comment’’ on decision of the Upper Chamber on adoption of conference report on INEC Commission Act (2010) Amendment Bill. Omo-Agege, however went to…

After reviewing the gruesome images and videos that have populated the news media, today, the Senate took action on the ongoing slave trade in Libya. We passed a Resolution calling on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to summon the Libyan…